水彩艺术

　　绮丽景致总能激起画家的灵感，英国画家走遍世界描绘美景，他们没有使用传统的油彩，而是使用水彩。Sheila Hancock为您讲述水彩艺术的魅力。
　　Watercolours have always been the poor relation of oil painting. And yet the immediacy and freedom of painting in watercolours have made them the art of adventure and action - even war. It has been an art form the British have pioneered, at first celebrating the greatest landscapes of Europe and then recording the exotic beauty of the British Empire. Sheila Hancock - an ardent fan of watercolours since her childhood, and whose father was an amateur watercolourist - sets out on a journey, from the glories of the Alps and the city of Venice, to deepest India as she traces the extraordinary story of professional and amateur watercolourists and reveals some of the most beautiful and yet little-known pictures.